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How does skinning arise in coatings and how can it be prevented?

Getting the right contractor and carefully planning and documenting the installation process can prevent construction disputes and disruptions, costly production shutdowns and lawsuits.

Thoroughly understanding electrostatics will improve transfer efficiency, parts coverage, finish quality and personal safety.

To achieve unmatched homogeneous predispersion results with precise, reproducible qualities, the Grinding and Dispersion Division of Netzsch now manufactures an all new disperser, the Y-Mix.

Many OEMs apply coatings to their products in their own facilities.

BASF and Q-Panel Lab Products have developed an accelerated Florida acid-etch test that they say reduces the time required to test a coating's resistance to acid rain by a factor of 13 to 1.

ASTM International has launched a new Internet-based system designed to initiate, develop and track draft standards and revisions before and during their balloting stage.

In my last column (Industry Forum, January 2003), I wrote about promoting investment through innovative business solutions.

ElektroPhysik USA has introduced the ColorTest, a portable spectrophotometrical device for color measurement.

The Ford Motor Co. changed the way Americans worked and played. Red Spot Paint & Varnish Co. has been a major innovator in paints for plastics. They both turned 100 this year.